Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-02-04
TURN THEM ALL OUT.
Pointed Speeches Yesterday In the
Senate on CiyiI-Seryice Reform.

POiuted Speecncs hesferuay HI the
Senate on Ciyil-seryice Reform.
(By telegraph to the Dlspatch.l
WASHINGTON, February 3.-In the
Senate to-day the resolution heretofore
offered by Mr.. Plumb calling on the
Secretary of the Interior for informa-
ton as to whether there is any rule OF
the Pension-Oflice whereby any appli-
can't for pension is denied a hearing by
reason of being also petitioner to Con-
gress was taken up and discussed. The
discussion turned somewhat on the
question of ciyil-service reform.
On that point Mr.. Salisbury said that
while he would not convert President
Cleveland into public butcher, decapi-
tatiDg every office-holder hostile TO him,
he would instruct him that it was a
duty which he owed to himself, his
Administration, the party which elected
him, and the country which he served,
to purge the Departments of men hos
tile to bis Administration, and unless
he did so he would not have "A success
ful Administration.
Mr.. Morgan expressed the belief that
there was more intelligence represented
in the Democratic party to-day than
ever had existed before in any political
party. Many Republicans who had
witnessed the rapacity and infidelity to
the Constitution of their own party had
been compelled, through self-respect,
to join party which had some respect
for the Constitution and law, and
that was the reason why he
was able to say that there
was more intelligence represented in
the Democratic party to-day than had
ever been found before in any party in
the United States. The Democratic
party was a conglomerate party, made
up largely of men who had enough
independence of thought to leave behind
them their party leaders and machine
workers and come out in honest advo-
cacy of opinions OF policy which they
believed essential to the whole coun-
try. He agreed with the Senator from
Delaware, that the President mistook
his opportunities for success, and put it
very much in peril when he deliberately
left the conduct of public affairs in the
hands of his enemies. He hoped that
the President and heads of Departments
would take warning, and not let them
selves and their Administration be
brought into disgrace by the treachery
of subOrdinates.
Mr.. Plumb said the remarks of the
Senator from Alabama seemed to indi-
cate on his part an absence Of accurate
knowledge of what is going on in the
United States. He had eulogized the
Democratic party, but that party was
fast disappearing. There were sections
of country where it once existed, not
only in vigor but in great numbers
where there is only trace OF it left
In South Carolina, State having, ac-
cording to the last census, as many
people rs Kansas, and having
as many representatives in the other
branch of Congress, only $4,000
votes were cast at the last congressional
election. while nearly 300, 600 were cast
in Kansas. One district in Kansas cast
nearly twice as many as the entire State
of South Carolina. Only about 10000
votes were cast in Georgia, the empire
State of the South, over whose achieve
ments the average Bourbon Democrat
fingered with pride-the keystone of
the Confederate arch. He would not
say whether the census was to be be-
lieved; whether Georgia had as many
or more people than Kansas in 1880, but
Georgia cast less than one third the
number of votes cast in Kansas Mt the
last general election.
MIR. Morgan said in Alabama the Re
publicans had no ticket mt all.
Mr.. Beck explained that as to the
State of Kentucky, the smallness of the |
Lexington district, for in
due to the fact that there |
was no Republican candidate running |
against Breckenridge. He agreed with |
the Senators from Delaware and Ala
bams that it was not wise policy on the
part Of the Administration to keep its
enemies in Office, and he referred to
Jameson, chief of the railroad mail ser
vice, as Republican who had under
lin 4,400 employees. with salaries
rom 81, 800 to $500.
Mr. Plumb expressed his willingness
o see every Republican office-holder
urned out. He asked how il was that
n Kentucky, if the people were really
here, they did not come out to express
heir opinions at the polls. What
groundwork was there for the eulogy
which the Senator from Alabama had
,assed on the Democratic party, when
My 2 or 3 per cent Of its MEM
'ers ever went to the polls? In those
llaces where the Democratic party
hrives most there was no such thing as
'ubhc opinion. No man in Congress
Nth only three or four thousand votes
/ his back could assume 10 represent
ny phase of that public opinion which
ught to be finally reflected in the laws
nacted by Congress. He did not care
D 60 back of figures. Either the
Democratic party had disappeared
r a worse thing had come about.
nd the people OF these sections
ad no interest inpubic matters; didn't
are who represented them in Con-
ress; didn't submit TO arbitrament of
ltelligent discussion, and were, per
consequence, not fitted to exercise the
auctions of government.
Mr.. Plumb's resolution was discussed
ntil 2 O'Clock, when it was laid aside
ithout action.
Anderson Perry Acquitted.
tBy telegraph TO the Dispatch.l
BALTIMORE, MD, February Am {